Joshua 5:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way. ”

Joshua 5:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of the whole nation those only were already circumcised at the time of the passage of the Jordan who had been under twenty years of age at the time of the complaining and consequent rejection at Ka...
Joshua 5:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua Circumcises the Israelites. Here we have an interesting but quite unhistorical account of the institution of circumcision. Circumcision (pp. 83, 99f.) is a prehistoric rite practised by many n...
Joshua 5:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
Joshua 5:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 4-7. And this is the cause, &c.— The reason is clearly expressed in the text. Excepting Joshua and Caleb, all the six hundred thousand fighting men, who came out of Egypt, had died dur...
Joshua 5:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised. No JFB commen...
Joshua 5:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Renewal Of Circumcision And Celebration Of The Passover The two incidents recorded in Joshua 5:2-12 ;—Circumcision and the Passover—represent the final stage in the preparation of the people for...
Joshua 5:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(20 — 5:9) It would seem that these verses all belong to one section. The use of the first person in Joshua 5:1 , “until we were passed over,” is most naturally explained by taking the verse as pa...
Joshua 5:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER X. CIRCUMCISION AND PASSOVER- MANNA AND CORN. Joshua 5:1-12 . THE first two facts recorded in this chapter seem to be closely connected with each other. One is, that when all the Amorit...
Joshua 5:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Renewing the Covenant with God Joshua 5:1-12 Evidently the people of Canaan realized that they were entering into conflict with God Almighty. This made their bitter resistance less excusable. B...
Joshua 5:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The effect on the people of this crossing of the Jordan is revealed in the words, "Their heart melted, neither was there any spirit in them any more." Therefore time must again be taken for matters d...
Joshua 5:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

As circumcision was a sign or seal of the everlasting covenant God made with Abraham, and evidently referred to Him in whom the law was to be completed: it is not very easy to account for the long ne...
Joshua 5:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the children [whom] he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised ,.... Who were born to them in the wilderness, and succeeded them, some of which might be near forty years of age; as for...
Joshua 5:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Their children them Joshua circumcised This God now required to be done, 1st, As a testimony of his reconciliation to the people, and that he would not further impute their parents' rebellion to th...
Joshua 5:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

CIRCUMCISION IN GILGAL (vs.1-9) The miraculous crossing of the Jordan awakened great fear in the hearts of the Canaanitish people, so that their hearts melted (v.1). This was God's work. It was H...
Joshua 5:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Circumcision of the Israelites. B. C. 1451. 1 And it came to pass, when all the king...
Joshua 5:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Them Joshua circumcised; which God would have now done, 1. As a testimony of God's reconciliation to the people, of which circumcision was a sign, and that God would not further impute their pare...
Joshua 5:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And their children whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised, for they were circumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.' Here it is specifically stated that t...
Joshua 5:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 5:2 . Sharp knives] Marg. “knives of flints” (cf. Exodus 4:25 ). The reason for using stone knives may have been more on account of legal than of physical considerations....
Joshua 5:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 5:1 . The Amorites on the side of Jordan westward. This agrees with Numbers 13:29 . The Amorites dwell in the mountains. Joshua 5:2 . Make thee sharp knives. Whet them, if of steel; bu...
Joshua 5:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Make thee sharp knives and circumcise. The circumcising at Gilgal Even those comparatively unenlightened people must have realised that there was deep spiritual significance in the administrati...
Joshua 5:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE CIRCUMCISION .— Joshua 5:1 Which were on the side of Jordan westward. A large portion of the territory of the Amorites had, as we have seen ( Joshua 3:10 ), been alread...
Joshua 5:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Circumcision of the People
Joshua 5:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 1:39 ; Numbers 14:31
Joshua 5:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Circumcised — Which God would have done, As a testimony of God's reconciliation to the people, and that he would not farther impute their parents rebellion to them. Because the great impediment of...

Joshua 5:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Joshua 5:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 5:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joshua 5:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Joshua 5:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joshua 5:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 5:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joshua 5:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joshua 5:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joshua 5:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joshua 5:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joshua 5:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joshua 5:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 5:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 5:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joshua 5:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joshua 5:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 5:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joshua 5:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 5:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joshua 5:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joshua 5:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joshua 5:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 5:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes